History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 651.
[Harrison County] [Cynthiana City and Precinct]
CHRISTIAN T. DELLING, clothing and furnishing goods; P. O. Cynthiana; was
born in Saxony, Oct. 10, 1823, and came to the United States in 1848. He
is the only son of Christian A. and Ernestine W. Schneider, both natives
of Saxony, and both dead. His parents had one other child: a daughter,
Matilda. Our subject learned the trade of a silk and wool weaver, and
after he came to this county remained one year in Pennsylvania; then six
months in Ohio; then to Kentucky in 1850, locating first in Grant, then
in Bourbon, and thence coming to Cynthiana in 1852, where he has resided
ever since. Sept. 4, 1861, he married Mrs. Louisa (Taber) Ormsby,
principal of the first female school in Cynthiana; a native of Duchess
County, N.Y., born March 30, 1823, daughter of Andrew and Louisa (Whitting)
Taber; he a native of Connecticut, and dying in 1838; she, still living,
in her ninety-fourth year, at Galion, Ohio. One child has been born to
our subject: Fannie L., born Nov. 22, 1865. Himself and wife are members
of the Methodist Church, and the daughter is an Episcopalian; he is a
Mason and a Republican. During Morgan's raid in 1862, Mr. Delling met
with a loss of about $1,000, and in 1864, a loss in goods of about
$7,000. He is the oldest Protestant foreigner in Cynthiana, being a
Lutheran. Mr. Delling is the owner of a fine collection of mineral and
geological specimens, and antiquities. Among them are old and are books,
viz: 1645 to 1650, containing full trials of King Charles I, 1648; also
the trial of the twenty-nine Regicides, which took place Oct. 12, 1660;
also trial of William Penn for street preaching, Sept. 20, 1670, before the
Lord Mayor of London; and a written manuscript of over 200 pages, by Jacobi
de Paradiso, Tractatus de Erroibus et Moribus Christianorum. A beautiful
written manuscript of the fifteenth century, 1465 to 1472. One
pre-historic Indiana female mold, found a quarter of a mile nor of
Cynthiana, at the time the C. & L. R. R. was built; also two coins
connected together, a relic from a Catholic French Missionary, who no doubt
had been murdered and burned by the Indians in that part of Cynthiana, now
called Wilsontown. One of them represents the shape of a heart, with the
holy images thereon. The other is oblong and grants the Missionary 1080
indulgences for truth, fidelity, and prayer to the Holy Ave Maria. He
has also one large copper coin AVRELIVS CAESAR, Avg., who died, A.D. 175.
Delling Schneider Taber Ormsby Whitting
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Grant-KY Bourbon-KY Duchess-NY CT OH Saxony
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